In English:

The show trial of Abdullah Öcalan in Turkey: what lies behind the behaviour of the PKK leader? By Justus Leicht and Peter Schwarz (World Socialist Web Site, 8 June 1999). “Ocalan astonished both his supporters and opponents with his remorseful attitude.”

The New-Old PKK. By Alex de Jong (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, March 18, 2016). “The PKK has continued to struggle for justice in Kurdistan. But its democratic transformation leaves much to be desired.”

Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? – the evolving ideology of the PKK. By Alex de Jong (International Viewpoint, 11 March 2015). “The focus is on the movement’s ’official’ ideology as written down in statements of Öcalan and documents of the PKK.”

Dances with Wolves: Turkey and the Kurds. By Ron Margulies (International Socialism, Issue 145, Winter 2015). “Over the same period the PKK succeeded in turning itself into more than a guerrilla organisation. It set up countless organisations and became influential in all walks of Kurdish life, including the large Kurdish diaspora in Western Europe.”

Will there be an independent Kurdistan? By Alastair Stephens (Counterfire, November 1, 2014). “A Kurdish state would raise the hopes of millions of Kurds, change the geopolitics of the region and challenge the integrity of the existing states.”

The long struggle of the Kurds. By Memet Uludag (Irish Marxist Review, Vol.2, No.8, 2013, p.22-36). “As one of the major political conflicts in the Middle-East, the Kurdish struggle has dominated the recent history of the region, spreading across the modern day countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran; and yet, little is known about the origins or the historical-political journey of the Kurds.”

The Kurdish question in Syria: a litmus test. By Alastair Stephens (Counterfire, 23 September 2012). “As civil war, imperial intervention and sectarianism threaten to undermine the Syrian uprising the Kurds, up until now a lesser actor, appear to be moving towards centre stage.”

Syrian Kurdish cards. By Denise Natali (Middle East Report Online, March 20, 2012). “Upheaval in Syria has given Kurdish groups new opportunities to advance their nationalist agendas while serving as proxies for neighboring states.”

The betrayal of the Kurds. By Phil Gasper (International Socialist Review, Issue 28, March-April 2003). “The Bush administration’s callous abandonment of the Kurds will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the long history of broken promises by both the United States and Britain.”

Litteratur:

Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution (pdf). By Abdullah Öcalan. (Internaikonal initiavie Edition, 64 p.). “Öcalan coined several slogans like ‘A country can’t be free unless the women are free’, thereby redefining national liberation as first and foremost the liberation of women …” From the site Freeocalan.org.